Priyanka D'Souza is a visual artist, writer, and poet from Mumbai, India. In her academic and artistic practice, she works with crip time and protest in ecological reimaginings, Mughal miniatures, early modern natural history, and the concept of the ajai'b (wondrous/strange), particularly in imaginings of borderlands of nation-empires and as applied to anomalous bodies. She is one half of the artist duo, Resting Museum, with Shreyasi Pathak. Resting Museum uses rest, queerness, and disability as methodology in its art practice and curatorial projects to intervene in art and design history discourse and archives. Priyanka has been a fellow at the Dara Shikoh Fellowship ’16, a Zoeglossia Poet fellow in 2022, an artist resident at the Delfina Foundation, London, in 2021, and has received the FICA Emerging Artist Award ’22. She has exhibited independently and under Resting Museum worldwide.
